Alan Turing

Aaron Swartz's suicide continues to ripple through Congress

2013-02-05 07:15:00

Aaron Swartz may change the Internet yet again, even in death, with the help of lawmakers who have expressed a fondness for breaking the law. At a Washington, D.C., memorial Monday night, members of Congress and loved ones gathered to remember Swartz,...

Google Doodle celebrates Frank Zamboni's ice-resurfacing machine

2013-01-16 12:53:00

Frank Zamboni, the man who invented the hypnotic Zamboni ice resurfacing machine, was honored Wednesday with a playable Google Doodle. It would have been his 112th birthday. Zamboni invented his ice-resurfacing machine back in the 1940s, after opening...

South Korean robot prison guards: R2-D2 maybe, not the Terminator

2011-12-05 21:39:11

Black List 2011: The Top 10 hottest scripts in Hollywood

2011-12-12 16:36:43

Black List 2011: The complete list of Hollywood's hottest scripts

2011-12-12 16:36:40

John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence

2011-10-27 00:00:00

In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting. He called...

Celebrate 11022011 with a palindrome, LOL

2011-11-02 21:37:03

White heat: Six degrees of John Cale

2010-09-30 16:34:55

Apple I computer, hand built by Steve Jobs, sells for $210,000 in London

2010-11-23 16:34:15

Artificial intelligence researcher from Harvard wins Turing Award, considered the Nobel of computing

2011-03-09 16:35:13

Transhumans in space

2007-10-05 00:00:00

Today, Hickam and Simberg debate genetic solutions to the challenges of long-term space travel. Previously they discussed the grudge match between private space entrepreneurs and the federal space agency, examined the moon and Mars for signs of human life...

Savage Love: Father Figures

2013-02-13 02:00:00

I'm a 37-year-old single father with a 14-year-old son. I've raised him on my own basically since birth, with help from some good friends and nearby family. Overall he's a good kid: gets decent grades, rarely gets in trouble. Our relationship isn't...

In one of their most intricate doodles yet, Google employees created an interactive series of puzzles as a tribute to Turing, whose work helped pave the way for the modern computer.

2012-06-25 17:21:42